Science

Assessing overconfidence among national security officials
Photo: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain National security officials are “overconfident,” which makes it difficult for them to accurately assess uncertainty, according ...

Google’s healthcare AI made up a body part — what happens when doctors don’t notice?
Scenario: A radiologist is looking at your brain scan and flags an abnormality in the basal ganglia. It’s an area ...

Baby mammoth Yana, dating back 130,000 years, dissected by scientists: photos
Warning: This article contains graphic pictures. The reader's watch is recommended. Stunning pictures show a woman Mammoth, baby, Starting with ...

Unreachable Nobel winner hiking ‘off the grid’
The Nobel Committee struggled to achieve two laureates of medicine of this year – one of them is believed to ...

When I got COVID, readers said it proved vaccines don’t work. What has RFK Jr. wrought?
I can’t say that I was surprised, but the readers did not take much time to jump on the bait ...

Company claims to resurrect dire wolves after 12,500 years of extinction
The company from Dallas claims that she returned Volkov, who last wandered around the ground more than 12,500 years ago ...

Science costs money—research is guided by who funds it and why
Scientists always needed someone to help pay the bill for their work. For example, in the 19th century Charles Darwin ...

Experimental therapy gantenerumab fails to slow or improve Alzheimer’s memory loss in clinical trials
CNN – Experimental treatment, Gantenerumab, could not help people with a high risk of memory loss from Alzheimer's disease or ...